Under pressure after the Capitol riot, self-styled militias are regrouping around anti-vaxx conspiracy theories https://www.businessinsider.com/far-right-regroups-antivaxx-theories-after-capitol-riot-flop-2021-6 Far-right militias are regrouping around anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, experts told Insider. It appears designed to replenish the ranks after the Capitol riot threw the movement into disarray. Insider flagged a prominent militia group selling anti-vaxx t-shirts, which Facebook removed. (More at above url)
Is the rhetoric more then the crimes.... None of the more than 500 defendants accused in the attack has been indicted for sedition or for the gravest of crimes a citizen can face, treason. And as an increasing number of lesser charges are filed and defendants plead guilty, those accusations may never be formally levied. https://apnews.com/article/joe-bide...apitol-siege-61007f50fb3ebe15a07982112f05730c
A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol told book author the rioters weren't there to 'steal things' or 'do damage': 'We were just there to overthrow the government' https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporter-stormed-capitol-told-224933627.html A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol said the rioters "were just there to overthrow the government." Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender detailed her remarks in his new book, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election." "We weren't there to steal things," she said. "We weren't there to do damage." A Trump supporter said rioters were "just there to overthrow the government," a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender says. Saundra Kiczenski, a 56-year-old from Michigan, told Bender she was "confident" that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, according to the book "Frankly, We Did Win This Election," published earlier this week. "If someone put a gun to my head and said: 'Did Donald Trump win, yes or no? And if you're wrong, we're going to shoot your head off!' I would say 'yes,'" Kiczenski told Bender, according to an excerpt of the book that was published by The Washington Post. "I'm that confident that this stuff is not made up." In the book, Bender detailed former President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the election after becoming the first incumbent in decades to fail to win reelection. "We weren't there to steal things," Kiczenski, who entered the Capitol on January 6, said, according to the book excerpt. "We weren't there to do damage. We were just there to overthrow the government." But when Trump took to Twitter to urge his supporters to go home, Kiczenski said she felt sad and confused, Bender wrote. "We were supposed to be fighting until the end," she said. A pro-Trump mob descended on the Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to interrupt lawmakers voting to certify the win of then-President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 election. This followed a barrage of lies about the 2020 election from the former president for which he was impeached by the House but then later acquitted in the Senate earlier this year. According to an Insider database, more than 500 people have been charged in connection with the riot, which lasted about four hours. Several bombshell books portray an inside look at the Trump administration's reaction to the insurrection, including a new book, "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig. According to the book, then Vice President Mike Pence, who oversaw the congressional vote, refused to evacuate the Capitol despite the Secret Service urging him to leave. Tim Giebels, Pence's lead security agent, asked the vice president "twice" to evacuate the building, to which Pence said "I'm not leaving the Capitol," according to the book. "We need to get back tonight," Pence told top US officials on a call, according to the book. "We can't let the world see that our process of confirming the next president can be delayed."
It is all bogus, grandstanding by Democrats and RINO extreme liberals. At the same time, Antifa/BLM thugs can actually murder people, destroy property, loot, burn businesses to the ground but, not even charged for their crimes? US laws not being enforced on the BLM/Antifa thugs while, cracking down and throwing the books on patriotic citizens merely, demonstrating?
DEA agent charged in Capitol riot after his friend told the FBI he lied about his participation to 'cover his a--' https://www.insider.com/dea-agent-mark-ibrahim-charged-capitol-riot-lying-2021-7 A DEA agent was arrested on charges of storming the Capitol as part of the January 6 insurrection. Mark Ibrahim carried his DEA-issued badge and gun and posted about it in a groupchat, per the FBI. A friend told the FBI Ibrahim lied about his participation to "cover his a--," according to an affidavit. An agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency was arrested Tuesday after the FBI accused him of storming the Capitol on January 6 and lying to Justice Department officials about his participation in the insurrection. Prosecutors accused the DEA agent, Mark Ibrahim, of bringing a gun to the Capitol grounds as part of a mob of Donald Trump supporters who sought to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. According to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in Washington, DC, Ibrahim wore his DEA-issued badge and firearm while protesting the election results. A friend Ibrahim was with took a video of Ashli Babbitt's body being moved by paramedics, and Ibrahim shared the video in a WhatsApp groupchat with other law enforcement officials, the affidavit said. The FBI affidavit includes several photos of Ibrahim appearing to pose for a camera during the riot, as well as one photo that appears to be a selfie. Officials in the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General interviewed Ibrahim, according to the affidavit. Ibrahim told the officials he attended the event with a friend who was asked to document the event for the FBI, the affidavit said. When the FBI agent interviewed the friend Ibrahim cited, the friend said Ibrahim made up the story. "IBRAHIM's friend told your affiant that he was not there in any formal capacity for the FBI and that the FBI was not giving him directions or marching orders," the agent wrote in the affidavit. "He said that IBRAHIM crafted this story in an effort to 'cover his a--.'" The friend also told the agent that Ibrahim wanted to promote himself in advance of a potential podcast and cigar brand launch. "According to IBRAHIM's friend, IBRAHIM went to the rally in order to promote himself — IBRAHIM had been thinking about his next move after leaving the DEA and wanted the protests to be his stage for launching a 'Liberty Tavern' political podcast and cigar brand," the affidavit said. In an interview with Fox News in March, Ibrahim denied wrongdoing, according to the Washington Post. Ibrahim was on personal leave from the DEA on January 6 and previously told the agency he planned to resign, according to the FBI affidavit. One of his attorneys told Reuters in March that he was suspended from the agency because of his activities at the Capitol. Representatives for the DEA didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment about Ibrahim's employment status.